Clinical / Counselling Psychologist

Job summary

We have an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic Clinical/Counselling Psychologist who is seeking career progression and a varied clinical role in our well-established and dynamic Older People's Psychological Services in Mid Essex.

Maternity Cover - One year Fixed Term Contract (Part time 0.6 wte)

Newly qualified clinical/counselling psychologists or those who will be qualifying and achieving HCPC status this year are invited to apply under a preceptorship arrangement.

This post covers Maldon locality in Mid Essex (Chelmsford, Maldon, Braintree areas), the post holder can be based in Maldon or Chelmsford. Our central hub is the Crystal Centre, a purposively built award winning home of Older Adults' mental health services in Chelmsford with good transport links and a staff car park. We are based on a main hospital site with a range of shops including coffee shops, proximity to excellent childcare providers and the grounds which offer beautiful gardens with lovely walks.

Main duties of the job

This is an exciting timefor a Clinical / Counselling Psychologist with an interest in working with older peopleto join our team as we co-produce and transform older people's services in Mid Essex to enable more accessible, integrated services that better meet the needs of our service-users.

This post offers you diversity in clinical practice, supporting and enabling your professional development. You will provide direct psychological assessment and interventions for older people with complex mental health difficulties and adults with dementia (and their families and wider systems) across inpatient and community settings. You will provide group interventions, neuropsychological assessment (dependent on skill/experience) and work collaboratively with our multi-disciplinary teams, provide training and consultation and reflective practice groups. You will provide supervision to assistant and trainee psychologists (dependent on experience). You will receive regular clinical supervision from a senior clinical psychologist and peer support from colleagues across Trust Older People's Psychological Services. Clinical research, teaching and specialised interests are actively encouraged and you will have opportunities to contribute to service improvement and develop your clinical leadership skills.

About us

We, the Mid Essex Older People's Psychological Services team, are a newly forming and expanding team of qualified, trainee and assistant psychologists and an arts psychotherapist, passionate about working with older adults and challenging ageism. Our recent team assessment demonstrated that we are an effective team with clear objectives and roles, committed to quality and innovation. We are developing a compassionate, safe and supportive team culture and ensure protected time and space for reflection as a team.

We are committed to delivering equitable services and welcome applications from people from all backgrounds, especially from under-represented groups, as we are keen to bring diverse life experiences to our teams and expand who we are and what we have to offer.

We value and care about the wellbeing of our staff and see this as priority. We will support you to work flexibly. We look forward to receiving informal enquiries (telephone, online video conference, visits) and your application.

Join EPUT for a wealth of benefits, including:

• A commitment to develop your career
• A preceptorship arrangement with swift acceleration to band 8a for newly qualified Clinical/Counselling Psychologists
• A generous relocation package of up to £8000 (offered under specific terms)
• Flexible working
• CPD funding
• Support for overseas candidates